1 Aug 27
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Introduction: What are drugs? What is world
history?
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Thinking
about the multiple meanings of plant-based medicines and narcotics from
Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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Drugs: from Africa
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Kola in
Georgia
(Katie)
Note: All readings
for this week are also on b-space
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- Pendergrast
1993, 2000, For God, Country &
Coca-Cola, pp.
1-68; 86-91; 456-60. bspace
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- Yarbough, Charles C. 1898, "Therapuetics of
Kola." Journal of the American Medical Association" (282). jama
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- Gautier, A. 1906 "Tea," "Cocoa" & "Kola" in Diet and Dietetics. trans by A. J.
Rice-Oxley (London)
read
excerpt
(entire book here
)
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- Tuttleton
1963, 'Coca-Cola and
Dope: An Etymology.' American Speech 38(2):
153-155. jstor
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| 3 Sep 10 |
Kola in Ghana , Nigeria &
Liberia (Cameron)
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- Abaka,
Kola
is God's Gift
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- Uchendu 1964, "'Kola Hospitality' and Igbo
Lineage Structure." Man
64 (Mar-Apr): 47-50. pdf
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- Ford 1992, "Kola Production and Settlement
Mobility among the Dan of Nimba, Liberia," African Economic HIstory 2:
51-63. pdf
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| 4 Sep 17 |
Khat in Ethiopia &
Kenya (Jeff)
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- Neil
Carrier 2006, "Bundles of Choice: Variety and the Creation and
manipulation of Kenyan Khat's value" Ethnos
71 ( 3): 415-437. pdf
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- Feyisa,
T. H. and J. B. Aune 2003, 'Khat Expansion in the
Ethiopian Highlands: Effects on the Farming System in Habro District.' Mountain
Research and Development 23(2): 185.pdf
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6 Oct 1
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Khat in Europe and the Middle
East (James and Nicole)
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- Anderson,
Beckerlag et. al. 2007, "The
Ambivalent Amphetamine" and "Transnational Debates" in The Khat Controversy,
pp. 147-190. pdf
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- Varisco,
D. M. 1986, 'On the Meaning of Chewing: The
Significance of Qat (Catha edulis) in the Yemen Arab Republic.'
International
Journal of Middle East Studies 18(1): 1. pdf
jstor
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- Brooke,
C. 1960, 'Khat (Catha Edulis): Its Production and
Trade in the Middle East.' The Geographical Journal
126(1): 52. bspace
jstor
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- McCune,
C. A., M. Moorghan, et al. 2007, 'Liver disease
and khat chewing in young somalian men.' Journal of Hepatology 46: S276.1
page bspace
pdf
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- Agrawal, 1995, 'Dismantling the Divide Between
Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge,' Development
and Change, 26 (3): 413-439.
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- El-Wajeh et. al. 2009, 'Qat and its health
effects,' British Dental Journal
206 (1): 17-21
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- Pennings et. al. 2008, 'Commentary: Risk
assessment of khat use in the Netherlands: A review based on adverse
health effects, prevalence, criminal involvement and public order,' Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
52 (3): 199-207.
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For
background, see 280sd and khat tags on del.icio.us
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Drugs: from Asia
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| 7 Oct 8 |
Opium in India
(Heather)
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- Richards
2002, "Opium and the British Indian Empire: The Royal Commission of
1895." Modern Asian Studies
36 (May): 375-420. jstor
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| 8 Oct 15 |
Opium to San Francisco
(Heather)
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Please Note: readings are available on
the bspace resources page.
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- Sinn, 'Preparing Opium for
America: Hong Kong and Cultural Consumption in the Chinese Diaspora,' Journal of Chinese
Overseas 1,1 (May 2005):16-42. pdf
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- Calvert,
'Extracts of Opium-Chinese Method of Preparing' (1889) - p. 126, skim
rest - Primary Source
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- Liu, 'The Resilience of Ethnic Culture:
Chinese Herbalists in the American Medical Profession,' Journal of Asian American Studies 1.2
(1998) 173-191. html
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- Conwell, Why the Chinese Emigrate and the Means
they Adopt for the Purpose of Reaching America (1871). Read the
excerpt.
Full book here -
Primary Source
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- Carey, By the Golden Gate or San Francisco: The
Queen City of the Pacific Coast, with Scenes and Incidents
Characteristic of its Life (1902). Read the excerpt.
Full book here.-
Primary Source
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- Jun, 'Black Orientalism: Nineteenth-Century
Narratives of Race and US Citizenship,' American Quarterly 58.4 (2006)
1047-1066. pdf
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- Don't forget to get
a copy of the British
TV Series: TRAFFIK (rent here
or here).
Also in Moffit.
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| 9 Oct 22 |
Heroin in Afghanistan and
Britain (Nicole)
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- Finish
watching last episodes of TRAFFIK
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- Goodhand
2000, "From holy war to opium war? A case study of the opium economy in
North Eastern Afghanistan." Central
Asian Survey 19 (2): 265-280.bspace
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- Bennett 1988, "The British Experience with
Heroin Regulation," Law and
Contemporary Problems, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Winter), pp. 299-315. bspace
jstor
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- Lord
2002, "The poppies that feed the farmers." New Statesman 15 (703): 34. bspace
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- Glenny
2006, "Drugs and terror Britain's role." New Statesman 135 (4813): 18-21.bspace
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Also
check out del.icio.us tags: Heroin
and 280SD
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Drugs: from South America
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| 10
Oct 29 |
Coca in Columbia and
Peru (Cameron)
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- Taussig,
My
Cocaine Museum
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- Allen
1981, 'To Be Quechua: The Symbolism of Coca
Chewing in Highland Peru.' American Ethnologist 8
(1): 157.bspace
jstor
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- Boucher
1991, 'Cocaine and the Coca Plant.'
BioScience 41(2): 72-76.bspace
jstor
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| 11 Nov 5 |
Coca/Heroin, Bodies &
Money (James)
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- Watch
Maria, Full of
Grace (available in Moffit)
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- Glenn
2007, "The Birth of the Crack Baby and the History that Myths Make." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
(forthcoming). pdf
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- Jenkins
2001, "Drug contamination of US paper currency." Forensic Science International 121
(3): 189-193. pdf
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- Brockmann,
Hufnagel, Geisel 2006,"The scaling laws of human travel." Nature 439 (7075): 462-465. pdf
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- BBC interviews with people who carry drugs
between West Africa and Europe (Aug 2007) listen
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Drugs: from North America
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| 12 Nov 12 |
Making Drugs: From Yams to
Pills (Katie)
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- Watkins,
On
the Pill - focus on pp. 1-73.
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- Laveaga
2005, "Uncommon trajectories: steroid hormones, Mexican peasants, and
the search for a wild yam." Studies
in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36(4):
743-760. pdf
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- Kaler 2003, Running
After Pills: Politics, Gender and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe
ch. 6 pdf
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- Adamchack and Mbizo 1991 "Family Planning
Information Sources
and Media Exposure among Zimbabwean Men." Studies in Family Planning 22
(5): 326-331. pdf
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| 13 Nov 19 |
Testing Drugs: Ethical Dilemmas
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- Petryna et
al. 2006, Global Pharmaceuticals pp.
33-60;
240-262.
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- Osseo-Asare, "Bioprospecting and Resistance:
Transforming Poisoned Arrows into Strophanthin Pills in Colonial Gold
Coast, 1885-1922," Social History of Medicine 21 no. 2 (2008). pdf
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- Wen-Hua Kuo,
"Understanding Race at the Frontier of Pharmaceutical Regulation: An
Analysis of the Racial Difference Debate at ICH," Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics,
Sep 2008; 36: 498-505. pdf
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- Wen-Hua Kuo, "The
Voice on the Bridge: Taiwan's Regulatory Engagement with Global
Pharmaceuticals," East Asian Science,
2009. pdf
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- Lenzer
2006, "Secret report surfaces showing that Pfizer was at fault in
Nigerian drug tests." BMJ 332
(7552): 1233. pdf
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| 14 Dec 3 |
Selling Drugs: Doctors (Jethro
and Jeff)
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- Greene, Prescribing
by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease
- Reidy,
Hard Sell: The
Evolution of a Viagra Salesman
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16 Dec 11
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Final Paper Due by 4 pm
Prof. Osseo-Asare's mailbox (3329 Dwinelle Hall)
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